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The Ghost Writer ()


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Nathan Zuckerman is a promising young writer who spends a night in the home of E.I. Lonoff, an established author whom Zuckerman idolizes. Also staying in the Lonoff home is Amy Bellette, a young woman with a vague past whom the narrator... See more »

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Nathan Zuckerman
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Hope Lonoff
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E.I. Lonoff
Paulette Smit ...
Amy Bellette
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Dr. Zuckerman
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Judge Wapter
Rose Arrick ...
Mrs. Zuckerman
Harriet Wilson ...
Taxi Driver
Cecile Mann ...
Nurse
Patricia Pellows ...
Mrs. Wapter
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Writer (as Ralph Morse)

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Tristram Powell

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Tristram Powell ... (adaptation)
 
Philip Roth ... (adaptation)
 
Philip Roth ... (novel)

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Peter B. Cook ... producer
Michael Gill ... executive producer
Penelope Piggott ... associate producer WGBH

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George Fenton

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Kenneth MacMillan

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Lois Drinkwater ... (as film editor)
Angus Newton ... (as film editor)

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Suzanne Cavedon

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Rita Ryack

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Nancy Labrecque Baker ... hairdresser (as Nancy La Brecque Baker)
Phylis Della ... Miss Bloom's hairstyle designed by
Barbe Ennis ... makeup artist

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Stephany Marks ... production manager
Harry Rankin ... production manager

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Peter Agoos ... set designer
Jane Cavedon ... assistant art director
Davis Keniston ... set designer
Mina Martinez ... graphic design
Douglass Scott ... graphic design

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Ken Hains ... dubbing mixer
Michael Turner ... film recordist

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Tommy Moran ... gaffer
Scott Ramsey ... gaffer
Roy Russell ... grip

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Diana Mansfield ... production assistant

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Plot Summary

Nathan Zuckerman is a promising young writer who spends a night in the home of E.I. Lonoff, an established author whom Zuckerman idolizes. Also staying in the Lonoff home is Amy Bellette, a young woman with a vague past whom the narrator apparently comes to suspect of being Anne Frank, living in the United States anonymously, having survived the Holocaust.

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  • The Ghost Writer (United Kingdom)
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Trivia The Sam Wanamaker character is an American author who lives in a farmhouse in New England with his wife, played by Claire Bloom. At the time this adaptation of his book was made, author Philip Roth was living in a farmhouse in New England with Bloom, whom he would marry in 1990. See more »
Quotes Nathan Zuckerman: Were "The Diary of Anne Frank" known to be the work of a living writer, it would never be more than a young teenager's diary of her trying years in hiding during the German occupation of Holland, something boys and girls could read in bed at night along with "The Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson." But dead, she had something more to offer than amusement for ages 10-15. Dead, she had written a book, without meaning to or trying to, a book with the force of a masterpiece.
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